Charlottesville to Remove Robert E. Lee Statue at Center of White Nationalist Rally


By BY MICHAEL LEVENSON AND HAWES SPENCER
U.S.
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The statue was at the center of the deadly “Unite the Right” rally in 2017. The city said it planned to remove it on Saturday, along with a monument to Stonewall Jackson.
New York Times
Monuments and Memorials (Structures), Civil War (US) (1861-65), Charlottesville, Va, Violence (August, 2017), Right-Wing Extremism and Alt-Right
July 9, 2021 at 11:15PM

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